1. cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: wheat is a common crop.
2. the total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
3. A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas.
4. A short haircut.
5. an earmark on an animal.
6. A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.
7. the stock of a whip.
8. zoology A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
9. zoology A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
10. to cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass.
11. to cut (hair, for example) very short.
12. to clip (an animal's ears, for example).
13. to trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
14. to harvest: crop salmon.
15. to cause to grow or yield a crop.
16. to feed on growing grasses and herbage.
17. to plant, grow, or yield a crop.
18. crop up to appear unexpectedly or occasionally: "one of the many theories that keep cropping up in his story” ( Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
2. the natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
4. the lashing end of a whip
5. an entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
6. A rocky outcrop.
7. the act of cropping.
8. A short haircut.
9. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
10. the foliate part of a finial.
11. the head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
12. to remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
13. to cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
14. to remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
15. to yield harvest.

1. the pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
2. the top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
3. that which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
4. grain or other product of the field while standing.
5. anything cut off or gathered.
6. hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting.
7. A projecting ornament in carved stone. specifically, a finial.
8.
9. tin ore prepared for smelting.
10. outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
11. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
12. to yield harvest.
13. to cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
14. fig.: to cut off, as if in harvest.
15. to cause to bear a crop.
16. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images.

1. to take off the top or head of (a plant); cut off the ends of; eat off; pull off; pluck; mow; reap: as, to crop flowers, trees, or grass; to crop fruit from the tree.
2. to cut off a part of (the ear of an animal) as a mark of identification, or for other reasons.
3. to cause to bear a crop; plant or fill with crops; raise crops on: as, to crop a field.
4. to sprout; appear in part, and apparently by accident or undesignedly, from beneath the surface or otherwise from concealment; become partly visible or obvious: with out, sometimes up or forth.
5. to appear incidentally and undesignedly; come to light or to the surface: as, his peculiarities crop out in his work; the truth cropped out in spite of him.
6. to yield harvest.
7. to shear; cut the nap from, as woolen cloth.
8. to cut down needlessly the outer margins of a book. when this cutting shaves the type the book so treated is said to be bled.
9. the top or highest part of anything, especially of an herb or a tree.
10. corn and other cultivated plants grown and garnered; the produce of the ground; harvest: as, the crops are 10 per cent. larger than last year; in a more restricted sense, that which is cut, gathered, or garnered from a single field, or of a particular kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season: as, the wheat-crop; the potato-crop.
11. corn and other cultivated plants while growing: as, a standing crop; the crop in the ground; the crops are all backward this year.
12. the first stomach of a fowl; the craw; the ingluvies: sometimes used humorously of the human maw or stomach.
13. in insects, an anterior dilatation of the alimentary canal, succeeded by the proventriculus. see cut under Blattidæ.
14. anything gathered when ready or in season: as, the ice-crop.
15. the act of cutting or clipping off, as hair: as, he has given you a pretty close crop.
16. an ear-mark.
17. the hair of the head when thick and short, forming a sort of cap.
18. A wig of rough, short hair.
19. in mining, the outcrop of a lode. see outcrop.
20. in tanning, an entire untrimmed hide, struck for sole-leather. also called crop-hide.
21. A fixed weight in different localities for sugar, tobacco, and other staples. A crop hogshead of tobacco is from 1,000 to 1,300 pounds net.
22. A kind of whip used by horsemen in the hunting-field, consisting of a short, stout, and straight staff having a crooked handle, and a loop of leather at the end.
23. in cattle, a portion of the back, on either side of the median line, immediately back of the shoulder. see cut under point
24. the working unit in the making of turpentine, consisting of a forest tract of from 200 to 250 acres, containing approximately 10,500 faces.
25. in certain cephalopods and other mollusks, a more or less dilated portion of the esophagus, sometimes forming a lobular cæcum.
26. in the united states, usually a crop of which the herbage is eaten either green or dry, not exclusive of pasturage; the meaning is not well defined with reference to roots, which (until recently the sugar-beet) have been little grown in the united states. (see the extract.) T. shaw (“forage crops,” p. 1) restricts the term to pasture crops other than grasses.

1. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
2. feed as in a meadow or pasture
3. the output of something in a season
4. yield crops
5. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
6. the yield from plants in a single growing season
7. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
8. a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
9. prepare for crops
10. the stock or handle of a whip
11. a collection of people or things appearing together
12. cut short